Windows Open Services Architecture

Windows Open Services Architecture (WOSA) is a set of proprietary Microsoft technologies intended to "...provide a single, open-ended interface to enterprise computing environments.".overview PDF WOSA was announced by Microsoft in 1992. WOSA was pitched as a set of programming interfaces designed to provide application interoperability across the Windows environment.

The set of technologies that were part of the WOSA initiative include:

LSAPI (Software Licensing API) MAPI (Mail Application Programming Interface) ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) OLE for Process Control SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface) TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface) Windows SNA (IBM SNA Networks) WOSA/XFS (WOSA for Financial Services) WOSA/XRT (WOSA for Real-time Market Data)

See also

Component Object Model Object Linking and Embedding

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